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Wildfires in La Gloria

La Gloria, Colombia, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 8,433 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 10% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

Only fires of 1,500 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 13 Very low 29° · 69 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Very low 26° · 85 % · 26 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Very low 28° · 76 % · 23 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Very low 28° · 64 % · 24 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Very low 28° · 64 % · 28 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Very low 29° · 53 % · 26 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Very low 28° · 66 % · 28 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Very low 26° · 82 % · 25 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in La Gloria: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

8,433
hectares burned
10 %
of its area
4
fires
808
km²

How many times has La Gloria burned?

La Gloria has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2019 and 2022. The most recent: La Gloria fire, March 2022, with 1,735 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 8,433 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,623 hectares, 7.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
3
years with fire
8,433
cumulative ha
5,623
distinct ha

Fires larger than 1,500 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Colombia

Fires that entered La Gloria

  1. 1,735 ha La Gloria fire, March 2022 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,723 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 132 ha Pelaya fire, February 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 1,620 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 2,333 ha La Gloria fire, February 2019 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 2,593 ha in total · 14 days
  4. 4,233 ha La Gloria fire, March 2016 where it started 5.2% of the municipality · 4,426 ha in total · 12 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadistica (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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